TAFE teachers facing further cuts

Revelations of potential further staff cuts at Hunter TAFE campuses have prompted an urgent meeting of the local NSW Teachers Federation executive today.

The Federation says it is deeply concerned 300 TAFE staff across NSW are facing redundancy.

It is unclear how many of those could come from the Hunter.

The organisation's Rob Long says 17 of the region's staff already fell victim to cuts earlier this year and further cuts will be detrimental to students.

"What's going to happen with these further cuts, the impacts that will have on the students, what it will have on the fees they're going to pay, on the travel they've got to do, and of course if courses get cut," he said.

"We're very concerned about further cuts, we don't believe there should be any further cuts to TAFE NSW."

It comes only a day after Newcastle university students protested against a Federal plan to cut $2.3 billion from higher education to fund Gonski reforms.

Mr Long says today's meeting will be seeking more clarity on potential job losses in the Hunter and it is crucial they act fast.

"We're going to be meeting with Phil Cox this afternoon to discuss more details of the proposed further cuts to staff and courses.

"Then from that we will want to take some of these issues up with the local Liberal state government politicians to see exactly what the impact will be on our students and our on our teachers," he said.